BRCONNECT Summary Log

You can display a brief entry for each restore in the summary log conn.log . The logs are stored in the sapcheck directory. The entries in the file provide the following information about each function using BRCONNECT:

· Action ID (encoded timestamp of the log name)

· Function ID (extension of the log name)

· Timestamp (date, time) specifying the start of the function

· Timestamp (date, time) specifying the end of the function

· Return code

· BRCONNECT version

· BRCONNECT function and object for next and stats

BRCONNECT Detail Log

The detail log file contains information about the actions that were performed by BRCONNECT:

• The relevant parameters of initialization profile
init.sap that were set during the BRRESTORE run

• Information about the numbers of objects to be processed
• For the check function, the conditions to be checked
• Processing details:

• 
  
Check function: Alert conditions detected
• 
  
Cleanup function: Database logs that were deleted
• 
  
Next function: Tables and indexes for which the next extent was adapted
• 
  
Stats function: Tables and indexes for which statistics were collected

• Summary information and total counts of objects processed

Names of the BRCONNECT Detail Logs

Every BRCONNECT detail log contains a name with the following format:

c.

The first characters indicate the encoded time the restore was performed (action ID). The extension (function ID) indicates the type of processing. The logs are stored in the sapcheck directory.

BRCONNECT only writes logs for the functions check, cleanup, next and stats.

Possible function IDs:

.chk

: Check database system, function -f check

.cln

: Clean up database log, function -f cleanup

.nxt

: Adapt next extents, function -f next

.sta

: Check and update statistics, function -f stats

.dst

: Delete damaging statistics, function -f stats -d

.opt

: Check statistics only, function -f stats -f nocoll

.aly

: Collect statistics for tables with outdated statistics, function -f stats -f nocheck

.vst

: Verify table and index structure, function -f stats -v

.quc

: Determine objects to be processed for a given function, command option -q|-query

Command Options for BRCONNECT

This section describes the command options for the BRCONNECT tool.

If you use BRCONNECT with command options, these override the corresponding values in the initialization profile init.sap. To use the options, you can specify either the letter indicated or the complete word.

Syntax

The syntax of a BRCONNECT command is:

brconnect [] -f|-function []

brconnect -output detail -function check -default

Options

brconnect

[-c|-confirm |force]]

[-h|-help []|[version]]

[-l|-language E|D]

[-o|-output detail|process|summary|[,]time]

[-p|-profile ]

[-q|-query [check]]

[-s|-sapsid |]

[-u|-user [[/]]]

[-V|-VERSION [ALL]]

-f|-function []